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I’m “Archer Hairline” – what type are you?

I took a bibliography course as part of my undergraduate English degree, and through the misty fog of ages, I remember a section on the history of printing, which included a visit to St Bride Print Library. It left me with a general (albeit fairly shallow) interest in type and typefaces. Yes, folks, I’m a font geek.

I love the idea that it’s not just what you say, but what you use to say it: how some fonts are plain ugly and some are deeply inappropriate. Type is just type–you use it to put words together, and they’re the things that count, aren’t they? Who’d have thought letters could be so important in their own right?